The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume], February 21, 1914, Page 2, Image 2

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A QUESTION OF ADDMISSION
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OF DEAD SENATOR
HIS DESK IX SENATE DRAPED IN
MOIHNIXG—MESSAGES OF
CONDOLENCE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The
desk of the late Senator Bacon of
Georgia, was draped in mourning
today. The funeral will be held from
the senate chamber tomorrow. The
senate adjourned until tomorrow out
of respect to his memory.
Nation-wide message*, of condo*
ence have been received by members
fo the family here.
Although he had been thirty-three
years in public life Senator Bacon
died poor. His home at Macon and
his library were his only possessions
of consequence.
NITER IN MONTANA
Last year R. W. Richards, of the
United States Geological Survey, vis
ited a niter deposit on Camp Creek,
near Melrose, Mont., said to have
been discovered by F. C. Moore, of
Melrose. While the deposit may not
prove of economic importance, it is
interesting in that it affords another
example of a nitrate deposit in a re
gion having a fairly abundant rain
fall.
1 he value of the deposit can not lie
safely estimated from the data which
have been collected. Further explora
tion is needed to determine whether
«>r not the potash and soda nitrates
are included in the limestone back
from the outcrop. As the average
soluble portion of the samples col
lected by Mr. Richards is only about
1 to 5 per cent, it appears that .about
35 tons of rock would have to be
treated to obtain 1 ton of the crude
salts. This quantity if refined would
yield about 4 40 pounds of soda niter
and about 790 pounds of potash niter, i
the former being at present worth
about $24 and the latter about $41,
making a gross yield of about $ 1. s0 ,
per ton of rock treated. Better re- ;
turns might be obtained by treating
the loose rock fragments which lie
at the base of the cliffs, but such
material is very meager in amount.;
A copy of the report, Bulletin!
540-Q, which has been issued as an
advance chapter from “Contributions
to Economic Geology, 1912,” may be
obtained free on application to the
Director of the United States Geo
logical Survey, Washington. D <
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CARROXITE KLV HAS
OPENED SOME FIXE ORE
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In the Carbonate Ely company’s!
property, situated in Saw mill canyon ;
east from the towm of Lund, a good
show ing of copper ore is being open
ed up that promises the making of a
big mine in the old Ellison district.
At the depth of 4 7 feet in the shaft
a cross-cut was run that cut an ore-j
body eight feet wide which averages
4 14 per cent copper. A horse of lime
was then found which proved to be
between two and three feet wide and
then the cross-cut again entered ore.
Last reports from the mine stated
that the face had been driven eight
feet into the second orebody without
finding the farther wall. This ore is
said to go 10 per cent in copper and
the indications are the ledge will
prove quite extensive.—Expositor.
WITHDRAWS STOCK
FROM THE MARKET
The Buckskin National Gold Min
ing company has issued in a modest
way its annual report. It makes a
creditable showing for the manage
ment of the company of which Sen
ator Bell is the active moving spirit.
It shows that the total expenditures
to date has been $13,576.20 for la
bor and improvements; that said
company was realized from s*ock
sales at 10 cents a share, including
the stock paid to employes for wages
earned in developing the great prop
erty.
It further recites that there are
hundreds of tons of ore on the dumps
of great commercial value and that
ore sold, after paying expenses of
shipment and treatment, returned
more than $10 per pound in gold and
silver. The cash proceeds of this
ore went to swell the treasury
leaving many thousand dollars worth
of ore on dumps and in drifts, levels
and stopes.
The full significance of the report
is that the Bell property is a rich as
set and that its future means the real
bonanza mine of the National Buck
skin mining district.
At another meeting of the Buck
skin National Gold Mining com
pany's officers by a resolution of the
board of directors all treasury stock
listed at 50 cents a share is with
drawn from the market.
Another Buckskin not of import
ance is the fact that one of the
strongest, most successful and rich
est mine operators has becom in
terested in Buckskin. The future
will reveal this most important figure
in the mining life of Nevada.
The latest reports are that the Na
tional Buckskin Mines company, in
which Messrs. VVelshons, Flynn,
Bradley and Martin are the safe
guards, is steadily pushing its deep
tunnel ahead under the management
of Supt. James Martin and that the
conditions present are an assurance j
of the confidence that prompts the
officers to da proof work with the
aim of making another bonanza on
Buckskin mountain. Silver State.
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STRIKE IS THREATENED
ON NORTHERN RAILROAD
PORTLAND, Feb. 18.—With a
vote running 95 per cent in favor of
a strike, with already tlifee-fourths
of the vote in, a general strike of
the telegraphers in tr.e employ of the
Oregon and Washington Railroad
and Navigation company may be
called next week, unless an under
standing between the operators and
officials of the road can be reached,
or a solution secured through federal
mediation, which has been asked for.
The officials of the railroad said yes
terday that the situation presented
no critical phase as yet.
1MMI MTY IS DENIED
NEW YORK. Feb. 18.—John A.
Rensel, state engineer, refused to
waive immunity when he was sum
moned yesterday to testify before the
grand jury which is investigating po
litical graft and District Attorney
Whitman declined to call him as a
witness.
MISS A. L. TRENT was a late ar
rival at the Gcldfield yesterday from
Chicago.
AUTO SHIPPED
IN BY EXPRESS
I’NDER NEW KATES, CHARGE IS
ALMOST AS CHEAP
AS FREIGHT
That it is almost as cheap to make
shipments from San Francisco to
Goldfield under the new express rates
as by freight was demonstrated Sun
day when the Nevada-California
Power company received from the
coast a five-passenger Ford automo
bile, crated and weighing 2,100
pounds, upon which the express
charge was $08. Had the car been
shipped by freight in the same condi
tion, the charge would have been
$50.40, or $75.00 uncrated.
Although it occupied only a small
part of it, one of the largest express
cars of the Wells Fargo company was
used for the auto and it made the
journey from San Francisco on pas
senger schedule time, leaving there
Saturday morning and arriving here
Sunday morning. The auto was pur
chased through the Hrown-Parker
Auto company and is the second to
be shipped to Goldfield by express
in the history of the camp, the first
being received in the boom days
from the east.
SHERIFF .M ALLEY IS AFTER
ALLK(iEI> STOCK RUSTLERS
Nevada may have its Hole-in-the
Wall like Wyoming, where stock rus
tlers and outlaws can find refuge
and defy officers of the law. The
truth will he known in a few days
after Sheriff Alalley returns from
a trip to the southern end of Nye
county. He is going prepared to as
sert the law and to find out the
meaning of a report that there is a
perfect nest of stock rustlers operat
ing from an almost inaccessible can
yon in the rugged hills thirty miles
from Beatty.
The trip is taken for the purpose
of procuring evidence to be employed
against the men who ran off a small
bunch of horses and mules from Sand
Springs valley, in the eastern part
of Nye county. The theft was com
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nutted January 10 and since that date
Alalley has had one of his secret
staff on the trail of the marauders.
Yesterday he received word that the
stock had been discovered an taken
from hiing in the hills near Beatty
an were now pastured close to the
railroad tracks. The first bunch of
stock was owned by M. Alostro, a
member of the Elko County Live
Stock association, which has a stand
ing reward of $1000 for the capture
and conviction of rustlers.
The sheriff will leave this after
noon on his journey and it is certain
that be will apprehend the men who
ran off the stock, as he intimates
that he is going after big game and
expects to land it.—Bonanza.
AGAINST BOND ISSUE
SAX BERNARDINO, Feb. IS.—
The proposed good roads bond is
sue of $1,750,000 for San Bernardina
county was lost yesterday by a vote
of about o00 short of the necessary
two-thirds.
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from Tecopa and is stopping at the
St. Nicholas.
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CATTLEMEN HOLD ORGANIZA
TION MEETING IN RIVER
SIDE TOWN
Governor Tasker L. Oddie called I
to order Saturday morning in the
rooms of the Reno Commercial club
the organization meeting of the cat
tlemen of Nevada and eastern Cali
fornia and delivered an address of
welcome. Fifty-six cattlemen signed
the membership roll and officers were
elected as follows:
President, VV. H. Moffat of Reno;
vice presidents, William McGill,
White Pine county; Dan Brown,
Fort Bidwell, Cal.; T. J. Bell, Nye
county; Peter Indart, Elko county;
George Wingfield, Washoe county;
executive committee, John Hender
son, Elko county; H. Petrie, Hum
boldt county; R. C. Turrittin, Washoe
county; II. F. Dangberg, Douglas
county; G. W. Williams, Churchill
count»
The task of selecting a secretary
and treasurer was entrusted to the
executive committee. Dave Staunton
of Wlnnemucca is snid to be favored
for this office.
From San Francisco
to San Diego Made
at Mile-a-Minute Rate
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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 18.—
Bringing with him a pocket full
of mail, Silas Christofferson, the
young aviator, completed his
long flight from San Francisci to
San Diego yesterday, covering
the distance from Los Angeles
in two hours. Christofferson
declared he could make the
trip in one day, now that the
trail was blazed. The actual
flying time for the trip was
about ten hours, an averag'
speed of about a mile a minute.
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ADAMSON' CANDIDATE FOR
SECRETARY OF STATE
In a communication to the Trib
une, received today, L. F- Adamson,
formerly state bullion inspector, an
nounces his candidacy for the re- i
publican nomination for secretary of!
state at the primary election to be
held the first Tuesday in September.
In addition he says: “At some prop- J
er time prior to such primaries I will !
take pleasure in making a more ex- j
tended statement regarding m>
qualifications for the office and my
views with respect to the manner of •
its conduct in the event of my elec
tion.”
DESIRES INFORMATION
AS TO HER BROTHER
Mrs. X. A. Williaims-of Chicka
sha, Oklahoma, has wvitten the Trib
une requesting that an effort be
made to locate her brother, Frank
Mounce, who. when she last heard
from him several years ago. was a
resident of Goldfield. Mrs. Williams
describes her brother as sixty years
old and rather tall. She says she
will appreciate any information con
cerning him that is supplied her.
NEW LUNCH COUNTER
CARS IN OPERATION
TO BE ATTACHED TO GOLDFIELD
TRAINS IN THE FU
TURE
As an experiment, the Southern
Pacific railroad today began the op
eration of lunch counter cars be
tween Reno and Mina, which are a
novelty in the railroad world. The
cars will in the future be attached
to trains running between San
Francisco and Goldfield.
The new cars differ considerably
from the regulation dining or
buffet cars. They much resem
ble a quick lunch restaurant
on wheels, having a long coun
ter witli high stools, and serve
easily prepared short orders, sand
wiches, etc. The new cars have
proven a great success on the Cali
fornia lines of the Southern Pacific.
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HIGHEST POINT IN FLORIDA
Although Florida is a region of
comparatively slight relief, its sur
face presents considerable diversity,
ranging from a nearly level plain in
the coastal region and the Everglades
to a deeply dissected upland in the
northern part of the state, where
it is trenched by steep walled valleys,
and to a highland in the peninsula,
where it shows many more or less
rounded depressions separated by
narrow divides. Altitudes within the
state range from the sea level to
more than 200 feet above at places
on the ridge that forms the center of
the peninsula and to about 2 00 feet
above at the west end of the state,
near the northern boundaries of
Gadsden, Walton, Santa Roca and
Escambia counties.
I he southern part of the peninsula
comprising an area of about 150
miles long and over 100 miles in av
average width, lies in general less
than 50 feet above sea level. Narrow
strips of lowland also border the At
lantic and gulf coasts.
Tallahassee, the capital of the
state stands about 205 feet above
sea level, on a remnant of the up- ]
land which has been isolated by1
erosion. According to the list of.
altitudes furnished by the Seaboard I
Air Line railway. Mount Pleasant is
301 feet above sea level. This is
the highest accurately determined
point recorded in Florida.
11. D. EATON is an arrival at the
Goldfield from Sacramento via the
T. & G.
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SMITH & AMANN
Stocks and Bonds
MINING STOCKS - OIL STOCKS - BONDS
Russ Building - - San Francisco
CITIZENS ATTEND EXERCISES
COMMEMORATIVE OF HIS
BIRTH
Residents of Goldfield, numbering
at least 200, gathered in the assem- ^
bly hall of the high school building ^
Thursday night and paid homage to
the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the
great emancipator, upon the occa
sion of the 105th anniversary of his
birth. The exercises were simple
but impressive and the auditors gave
rapt attention to the oration of At
torney Frank M. Church upon the
life and character of the civil war
president of the United States. At
torney Richard S. Miner presided as
chairman.
In addition to the address of At
torney Church, the program included
a piano duet by Mesdames Joseph
Matscn and M. H. Dannenberg; in
vocation, Rev. J. L. Collins, pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal church;
solo. Mrs. J. E. King; violin duet,
Masters Titlow and Wigal; solos,
Miss F. L. Nesbitt; “Lincoln’s Gettys
burg Speech,” Samuel V. Newell;
oration, Attorney Frank M. Church;
chorus, “America,” assemblage.
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lil'CTiV DEPOSIT OPENING
BIG VEIN CHOPPER-SILVER
With twenty-two feet of a vein of
ore rapidly opening up which aver
ages from 8 to 15 per cent copper
and from 6 to 10 ounces of silver,
prospects at the Lucky Deposit prop
erty out in White Pine county, Nev.,
are exceedingly encouraging, accord
ing to the mine manager, L. G. Har
dy, who has just received news cov
ering the most recent developments.
The miners have sunk through 28
feet of sulphides which averaged 8
per cent copper and 6 ounces silver.
From here a drift was sent along
the strike of the vein about 60 feet
under the surface. This high-grade
ore averaged 15 per cent copper and
10 ounces silver. Figuring the vein
at right angles it shows a thickness
now of 22 feet.
It is the expectation of the manage
mentto postopone ore shipments un
til the snow all disappears and the
wagon roads dry up in the early
spring Herald Republican.
E. P. ROGERS was an arrival at
the Goldfield yesterday from San
Francisco.